Lillian Hellman Quotes

Lillian Florence Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her Communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. ...more

Birth: June 20, 1905 - Death: June 30, 1984

People change and forget to tell each other.

Topic(s): People , Life , Forget

It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Mistake , Time

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Made , Can Do

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Topic(s): Littles , Matter , Confidence

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Topic(s): Ends , Habit , Hope

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Topic(s): Father , Women , Angry

You lose your manners when you’re poor.

Topic(s): Poor , Loses , Poverty

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Topic(s): Way , Mother , Wanted

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Topic(s): People , Talking , Lonely

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Topic(s): Real , Lying , Half

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Topic(s): Years , Littles , Together

I don’t think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Topic(s): Thinking , Long , Known

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Lillian Hellman Quotes